There was something pleasing about 16-bit platformers with boomerang power-ups, especially those challenging players to catch them on return. Why we don’t see more games solely based around this simple throwing/catching mechanic is a mystery. ‘lo and behold – Bamerang is a local...
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Publisher Wired Productions staged their Wired Direct last night, revealing plans for several new indies over the next 12 months. It was Arcade Paradise, from developers of Vostok Inc, that caught our eye. It’s billed as an adventure game but sounds more...
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One running joke between ‘Team Games Asylum’ is that one of us should write an Asterix coin-op lookback, following our retrospectives on The Simpsons Arcade and TMNT: The Arcade Game. The joke here being that both Adam and Jake didn’t know such...
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On the face of it, Just Die Already – the next game from the creators of Goat Simulator – sounds a little unpleasant. Fed up pension hogging, property-owning, old people, the younger generation sets about ridding their city of old fogies. There’s...
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Even since Konami’s legendary TMNT arcade game, the green-hued dudes and the scrolling brawler genre have gone hand-in-hand. The awesome foursome are about to kick some shell once again, starring in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder’s Revenge – a new scrolling brawler...
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Drowning Monkey Games, the creators of Castle Kong, certainly aren’t afraid to hide their inspirations. As the name suggests, it’s a modern-retro take on Donkey Kong that promises an identical ‘hard but fair’ difficulty level. The game’s difficulty is clearly a focal...
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One of the advantages of working from home – due to one thing and another – has been listening to more music than I have done probably since I was a student. Without the Melody Maker to guide me, I’ve had to...
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While we can’t vouch for the PS4 and Switch versions, or even the PC original for that matter, Mad Tower Tycoon on Xbox One arrived in a sloppy state last November. Barely an hour went by without a progress halting glitch – the most...
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